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Kelsey Grammer worried Finding Neverland's first preview will be a mess

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WENN.com
Mar 12, 2015

Actor Kelsey Grammer fears Sunday's (15Mar15) first preview of his new Broadway show Finding Neverland will be a disaster because rehearsals have already included an on-set accident and a failed costume change. The former Frasier star portrays Charles Frohman, the producer of playwright J.M. Barrie's production of Peter Pan, and the curtain is due to go up for the first time on the musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre this weekend.
However, Grammer has warned the audience at Sunday's show to be prepared for hiccups as castmembers and producers still have a number of kinks to work out.
During an interview with U.S. talk show host David Letterman on Wednesday night (11Mar15), he explained, "We were standing on the stage rehearsing (today) and I realised we hadn't done that scene for about 10 days, so I thought, 'We're probably in trouble on Sunday', 'cause I didn't remember anything I was meant to say...!
"The New York audience is great, you know, the Broadway gang, because they know accidents are bound to happen (in previews). We've had a couple - one girl got knocked out by a harpoon the other day."
He continued, "I've got one costume change at the beginning of the show that hasn't gone right yet. I'm about 30 seconds behind so I'm not sure what's gonna happen."
However, Grammer is confident that once the show officially launches on 15 April (15), theatregoers will not be disappointed.
He says, "It's a very, very complex show. Finding Neverland is gonna be a great show. A lot of people are gonna just fall in love with this and it's gonna run for 25, 30 years. I've honestly been telling people if they don't see it, they will regret it."
Grammer will star alongside Glee actor Matthew Morrison, who will portray Barrie, while Tony winner Diane Paulus will direct the production, which is being produced by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston, among others.

Pop star Nicole Scherzinger is celebrating after scoring a coveted Olivier Award nomination for her West End debut in Cats. The former Pussycat Dolls singer is up for the Best Supporting Actress in a Musical prize for her portrayal of Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revived stage show, competing against former James Bond star Samantha Bond for her role in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Others in the category include Haydn Gwynne (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) and Lorna Want (Beautiful - The Carole King Musical).
Another former Bond star, Gemma Arterton, is included in this year's (15) top theatre awards with a nod for her leading turn in the stage version of Made in Dagenham.
Arterton will compete for the Best Actress in Musical category against Episodes star Tamsin Greig, who is nominated for her role the West End version of Pedro Almodovar's comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, as well as Katie Brayben (Beautiful - The Carole King Musical) and British singer Beverley Knight (Memphis the Musical).
Memphis emerged as the lead as the nominations were announced in London by James McAvoy and Lesley Manville on Monday (09Mar15), scoring nine nods in categories including Best New Musical and Best Actor for Killian Donnelly. It was closely followed by Beautiful - The Carole King Musical with eight.
In the drama categories, Mark Strong is up for Best Actor for his lead role in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge and he will go up against James McAvoy (The Ruling Class), Richard Armitage (The Crucible) and Tim Pigott-Smith (King Charles III), while the Best Actress nominees include Gillian Anderson (A Streetcar Named Desire), Kristin Scott Thomas (Electra), Imelda Staunton (Good People) and Penelope Wilton (Taken at Midnight).
Other notable nominees include Dame Angela Lansbury for her supporting role in Blithe Spirit, while British musicians David Byrne and Fatboy Slim are up for an achievement in music award for writing musical Here Lies Love. They will compete against The Kinks' Ray Davies for Sunny Afternoon among others.
A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, My Night with Reg, Skylight and A Streetcar Named Desire are up for the Best Revival prize while King Charles III, The Nether, Taken at Midnight and Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies are nominated for Best New Play.
The winners will be announced at London's Royal Opera House on 12 April (15).

Actor Eddie Redmayne has been named the Best Dressed Man in Britain in a GQ magazine poll. The Les Miserables star was dubbed the "country's most admired clothes horse" by editors at the publication, pipping Benedict Cumberbatch to the top spot.
Cumberbatch came in second, ahead of Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan in third.
Other stars featured in the top 50 include Arctic Monkeys rocker Alex Turner, actor Idris Elba, Charles, Prince of Wales and David Beckham, who came in 46th place, behind his 12-year-old son Romeo, who stood at number 25.

President Barack Obama has revealed he could have offered to call the heads of cinema chains threatening not to screen Seth Rogen's new comedy The Interview if Sony bosses had come to him with their concerns.
During his end of year press conference at The White House on Friday (19Dec14), Obama told reporters he thought studio executives had "made a mistake" in scrapping the film's 25 December (14) release after bowing to pressure from cyberterrorists unhappy with the movie, in which Rogen and James Franco play journalists assigned to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
The President said he was surprised that Sony bosses had not contacted him before pulling the plug on the film.
Appearing on CNN's State of the Union show on Sunday (21Dec14), he added that he has been in contact with Sony executives, telling them he could have offered them a lot of help.
He said, "I was pretty sympathetic to the fact that they have business considerations that they got to make. Had they talked to me directly about this decision, I might have called the movie theatre chains and distributors and asked them what the story was."
In response to Obama's remarks on Friday, Sony CEO Michael Lynton insisted the studio bosses had been in contact with The White House before the decision was made to pull the film from release. He insisted there was nothing the movie executives could do after the owners of so many cinema chains made it clear they would not be screening The Interview, following terrorist threats to target theatres that did show the film.
Meanwhile, late on Sunday (21Dec14), Sony's company attorney, David Boies, announced The Interview will be released - but not on Christmas Day.
During an interview for TV news show Meet the Press, Boies said, "Sony only delayed this. Sony has been fighting to get this picture distributed. It will be distributed."

Soccer legend David Beckham is "shaky" and "sore" from his car crash over the weekend (29-30Nov14) but still managed to turn out to support wife Victoria's charity event on Monday (01Dec14).
The British star's car collided with another vehicle after he picked his 15-year-old son Brooklyn up from a soccer session at the training ground of London club Arsenal.
Beckham revealed he was suffering from a sore shoulder as he attended his wife's self-titled London fashion store to sell shirts for World Aid's Day on Monday.
Despite his injuries he managed to carry his three-year-old daughter Harper into the shop as he arrived for the event. He said, "I'm fine but I'm a bit shaky and a bit sore."

Sting's new Broadway musical The Last Ship has opened to mixed reviews, with critics branding the show "dull" and "flawed". The production, which chronicles the rocker's upbringing around the shipyards of north east England, officially hit the stage at the Neil Simon Theatre in New York City on Sunday night (26Oct) after a series of previews, but the early feedback is not all positive.
The Hollywood Reporter's David Rooney writes, "This melancholy musical is without doubt a heartfelt, intensely personal project. It's performed with vigorous commitment by an accomplished cast," but he adds, "Sadly, it's also a bit of a yawn."
Calling the plot "plodding", the writer adds, "The artist's fans alone may be enough to constitute an initial audience. Even if his rhymes can be a touch insistent.
"The truth is that all the melodic tunes in the world can't save a show from the crucial failing of being dull."
Charles Isherwood of the New York Times claims the production has "its share of nagging flaws".
He adds, "Lively characterisations from the cast can only go so far to paper over the problem of overpopulation... There isn't sufficient room to explore any of the characters in real depth, with the result that our emotions are only intermittently engaged.
"For all the ruminative, haunting beauty of its score, this musical often feels dramatically landlocked - like a ship without a crew."
Variety's Marilyn Stasio adds, "Sting lives up to his nickname, the King of Pain, with The Last Ship", claiming his "mournful score" gives "poetic voice to the distressed shipbuilders", but "depicting their story as a heroic allegory is regrettably alienating".
The show stars Michael Esper, Rachel Tucker and Jimmy Nail, who joined Sting for a recent Inside the Actors Studio special, which aired in America on Thursday night (23Oct14).

Friends and family of Jimmy Scott gathered on Saturday (25Oct14) in New York to pay tribute to the jazz singer. Producer Hal Willner, U.S. Congressman Charles B. Rangel and biographer David Ritz attended a memorial service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem for Scott, who passed away in June (14) at the age of 88.
Singers including Sam Moore, Andy Bey and Chuck Jackson brought their musical talents to the memorial singing renditions of Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, Embraceable You and Any Day Now, respectively, while Sharyn Felder, the daughter of singer Doc Pomus, spoke at the event, according to Billboard.com.

David Beckham gave an 11-year-old cancer patient a boost by paying the youngster a surprise visit as part of Gwyneth Paltrow's charity initiative.
The retired sports star took a break from his busy schedule to hang out with Lloyd Burton, who was a budding soccer player before a brain tumour left him wheelchair bound. Beckham signed a soccer ball for his young fan and chatted with him about sport. Burton says of the visit:
"I had no idea that I was going to meet David Beckham, it was such a brilliant surprise. He was really nice and we chatted lots about football." Beckham visited Burton as part of Paltrow's charity telethon, Stand Up To Cancer, which airs in the U.K. on Friday (17Oct14).

Welsh actress Joanna Page and her husband James Thornton are expecting their second child together. The Love Actually star announced the news on Twitter.com, writing, "Exciting news! James and I are expecting another baby!!!! Yey!!!!"
Thornton, who previously starred in British soap opera Emmerdale, added, "Thrilled to say that Jo and I are having another baby!!!! Over the moon!"
The pair welcomed their first child, Eva, in February last year (13). They married in 2003 after working together on the BBC TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.

"There was a period time when it was only serial killers. I think I got David Koresh... and Ted Bundy and Jim Jones... I was offered Charles Manson a couple of times, but my favourite was... I picked up the phone one time and it was my agent and the conversation went, 'Hey. Hitler?'" Watchmen star Billy Crudup went through a period when the only roles he was offered were villains.